Window device



Patented Feb. 6, 1934 V UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WINDOW DEVICE Joseph B. Clay and Walter 0. Wille, Cedar Falls,

Iowa, assignors to Clay Equipment Corporation, Cedar Falls, Iowa Application February 26, 1932. Serial No. 595,274

2 Claims. (01. 189-69) Our invention relates to improvements in Said sash, a hooked handle '7 on the sash being window devices, and the objects of our improveprovided for handling it. When closed therements are, first, to provide a ventilating window against, the sash is snugly fitted therein, so that for stock barns and other building structures, when locked thereto prevents passage of air 5 whose hinged sash is mounted and partially intherebetween, and the lower bar of the sash @9 closed to suitably and adjustably admit fresh has welded therealong and angle-bar drip-cap air in a desired direction into the interior of 22 to divert moisture from inner face of sash the building, and by the employment of inexacross the part 1b. pensive means adapted for easy and convenient The numeral 16 denotes a like pair of trans- 10 operation. Second, we have furnished a special versely spaced and substantially triangular side (35 locking mechanism to secure the sash in a wings, imperforate, and with upper edges someclosed, or in any opened adjusted position, com- What convex and of practically the same radial prising two devices which have each their own len as the sh 5. e forward inclined peculiar and distinct functions, yet practically edges of the sash are bent inwardly toward each 7 cooperate together by the use of a single operatother at 1'? to serve as stops for the sash 5 when ing rock-arm, and which also include means for swung open to its full extent. Each wing 16 has forcing the sash open by the same movement at a distance below its top a cross rib or crimp which releases the sash. While our invention 18 to serve as a contacting bearing for the adis particularly appropriate for use in barns or jacen Wa l of the Sash, and 84150 I 20 houses for animals or fowls, it may be employed stiifens the wing. The lower diminished end 7 elsewhere, and various modifications may be parts of the wings 16 are seated between the made in its details without departing from the spaced flanges of the sill member 1b. The rear invention, or the protection of our claims. marginal parts of the wings are secured to the We have successfully accomplished the reframe jambs by said screw-bolts 3 and nuts.

duction of this invention to practice, by the The upper cross member 1a of the frame has a means which are hereinafter described and. medial forward and terminally downturned memclaimed, and which are illustrated in the accomher 8. On the ends of the upper sash bar are p y drawing, in which 1 is a from; fixed apertured bearing lugs 12 seating therevation Of 0111 window device as seen from the through a, rock-shaft 13 whose middle part is interior of a building looking outwardly, the dealso mounted rockingly in spaced pair of different open positions. Fig. 7 is an elevation vice being closed. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereapertured lugs 11 on t sash ban A plate 1 of With ParPs broken away- 3 1s a top Plan ment 9 is fixed on said shaft between the lugs thereof; Flgsand on a large? scale are 11 and has an ofiset outer terminal 9a to be perspecfilve deta'fls of the Sash lockmg g limited in one direction of movement by a fixed Espectlvely 9 or q i y lug 21 on the sash between the lugs 11. A plate 90 1s perspectwe detall i w the tnmal 9 element 10 is fixed upon the element 9 and has tion of one of the friction clutching devices a bent Over termination 10a when the device for a wing, associated with the locking means, 1 k

to to W m gametes: assesses; l, is rocked as in Fig. 5, the termination 10a con- 95 tacts with the part 8 and acts against it as a mechanism cam, with pressure action between the same 1 denotes a metal window frame haginlg jambs ggi gy ff g 2 35 322 3 23, 1 $2 2 connected by end members 1a an I), and i 1 0 may be mounted in a Suitable wan opening. between, as t is diilicult to do without this ap- Angle plates 2 thereon, with screw-bolt and slot phance and Its Cam actlonof the catch for the locking rock-arm. Fig. 8 is a detail view of a part of the hinged locking adjusting means at 3 and 4, may be used t The numeral 20 denotes a medially bent handle cure the frame between bricks or tiles of the wall rod with spaced members whose ations are therearound fixed to and under the plate element 9, and a m he numeral 5 denotes a window gash of m t l forked catch 19 on the sash 5 has undercut furcapreferably, having panes 6, but may have one r tions at 19c and 19b to receive the members of more, secured by putty or other means, and the said handle in the recesses 19!) to secure them frame has an upwardly fianged sill member lb thereto releasably, when the said members are to rockingly seat the lower and inserted end of compressed slightly together to pass between the furcations and react into the recesses when released.

The end parts of the rock shaft 13 are bent at an angle thereto and then shaped spirally at 14 at less than one turn, and have their terminals flattened at 15 wedge-shaped to narrow them. Near their bends the parts 14 cross the upper edges of the wings 16 so that the spiral parts are without the wings, the terminations 15 clearing the wings to permit free rocking and other movements of the spirals along the wings, but when the rock shaft is rocked in one direction by the handle 20, the crossing parts of the shaft at the bends engage and frictionally lock with the wings to hold the sash, as indicated by the dotted line in Fig. 1, to the wings as againstaccidental displacement therefrom. In this position, the handle 20 is to be engaged with the fureations of the catch 19 as above described, effecting a lock for thesash in the adjusted open position. To release the sash, the handle 20 is disengaged from said catch 19, and swung from it to rock the shaft 13 enough to release the locking engagements of the spirals 14 upon the wings 16, and the sash when swung to a closed position, may be locked against the frame with its member 90: under and stopped by the frame member 8 as shown in Fig.

8, and the handle re-locked with the catch 19 as described. Lugs 16a on the flanges 1''! of the wings and other lugs on the sash coact in holding the sash and wings when the sash is tilted and raised.

In case the sash when locked becomes adherent to the frame 1 by ice cementation, the handle 20 is to be disengaged from the catch 19, swung up, and the cam end 100. of the plate 10 thrust against the frame member 8, thus forcibly separating the sash from the frame in breaking the cementation. This result is attained without interfering with any clutching or looking operations.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a window device, in combination, an open window frame including side wings, a sash mounted swingably in said frame between the wings, and a rock-shaft mounted upon an end of the sash to extend at its ends across the wings and having terminals spirally shaped in open loops to be unengaged in one position with the wings, and in other adjusted positions to be frictionally engaged with the wings to releasably latch the sash to the wings.

2. In a window device, in combination, an open window frame including side wings, a sash mounted swingably in said frame between the wings, and a rock-shaft mounted upon an end of the sash to extend at its ends across the wings and having terminals bent over and beveled to be at times in frictional contact with the outer walls of the wings to latch the sash to the wings in any of desired positions of swinging away from said frame.

JOSEPH B. CLAY. WAL ER 0,- W LLE- 

